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12/2/2004 Ed Cha: We've officially launched Indie Press Revolution!
This is big, exciting news for the RPG creator-publisher. We're going to have banner ads on EN World and RPG.net up soon and start promoting the site. Details in this…
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Participants: Ed Cha.

12/2/2004 Dregg: Ads for the Forge
Hello, I'm about to do layout for my first self publsihed work "Pulp Era: Cinematic Adventures in the Yesteryear" and I would like to put a ad in the back…
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Participants: Dregg, Jonathan Walton, Ron Edwards, abzu.

12/2/2004 leegarv: Tales From The Floating Vagabond looking for new home
Hi, Lee Garvin here. Please forgive me if this post is innapropriate for the list, I'm just trying to get the message out. I'm dropping this announcement in here because…
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Participants: leegarv, ethan_greer, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

12/2/2004 Andy Kitkowski: Indie RPG Awards for 2004: One Month Left to Publish!
Just wanted to throw this out there to the folks who are working to get their final bits of PDF and print material together. The third (and last for me,…
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Participants: Andy Kitkowski, Jonathan Walton, jdagna, chadu, daMoose_Neo.

11/29/2004 smokewolf: The Swing is 1 year old
The Swing will be 1 year old in December. It spent 2 years in development and I can not tell you what the last 3 years have been like for…
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Participants: smokewolf, Jasper, jknevitt.

11/24/2004 MarktheAnimator: How to promote your online forum?
Hello, I've made an online forum for my game, Fantasy Imperium. http://fantasyimperium.com/phpBB2/index.php I was wondering if anyone out there has any ideas for how to promote an online forum? What…
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Participants: MarktheAnimator, jdagna, Grand_Commander13.

11/23/2004 Tav_Behemoth: Free PDF when you buy the print edition
I just saw that Gary and Goldleaf Games is offering a complimentary PDF of Code of Unaris to anyone who's purchased the print edition. Behemoth3's done the same with the…
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Participants: Tav_Behemoth, Ron Edwards, GaryTP, Mike Holmes, urbwar, Nathan P..

11/23/2004 Simon W: It's a Dog's Life (as a book/movie?)
In the week before It's a Dog's Life went on sale at RPGNow, I ran two last playtest sessions with two completely different groups of players. One group is largely…
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Participants: Simon W, Ron Edwards.

11/23/2004 daMoose_Neo: Kids, lisences, and RPGs
Hmmkay, I'm very excited about a new prospect. Tomorrow I'm going to be speaking with someone about giving an older property near and dear to my heart a game treatment,…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, clehrich, Jonathan Walton, madelf, Andy Kitkowski, Mike Holmes, mindwanders.

11/22/2004 clehrich: RPG Prose Style exemplars
As most of you know, much of my professional work is, unfortunately, devoted to grading--I mean teaching writing, as in academic prose style. Not surprisingly, then, I have been working…
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Participants: clehrich, Ben Lehman, Rob MacDougall.

11/22/2004 Grand_Commander13: What makes an excellent layout?
Hello again everybody. My RPG is moving along at a nice pace; we're hoping to have it up for sale as early as the twelfth of December, as a matter…
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Participants: Grand_Commander13, jdagna, Eero Tuovinen, GaryTP, Jonathan Walton, jerry.

11/19/2004 Tav_Behemoth: Personal Victory: Ken Hite Review
Since I've been a fan of Ken Hite's Out of the Box column for substantially longer than I've been a publisher, it's impossible to overestimate how psyched I am that…
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Participants: Tav_Behemoth, Ben Lehman.

11/17/2004 tldenmark: Best method to sell PDF's from your own website?
I've been working on a number of games, and hopefully will have at least one of them ready for Gen Con SoCal in December. I'll definitely have them ready for…
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Participants: tldenmark, Ron Edwards, jdagna.

11/17/2004 GregS: PDF Size and price. Yes, it's back...again...
Sorry folks, but I looked through all the topics and posts I could find and couldn't get an answer to this specific question: How big is too big for sources…
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Participants: GregS, Simon W, Jack Aidley, Vaxalon, madelf, Ed Cha, smokewolf, Brad Hindman.

11/16/2004 Kuma: Heads-Up for the No Press Anthology folks ...
I was just able to download the NPA from lulu.com for free. I don't know if this is something that you guys have set up for promo purposes (the POD…
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Participants: Kuma, abzu, greyorm.

11/16/2004 GregS: Valherjar: Core Cover for Critique
Alright Gang, Time to throw myself on the mercy of the court. Suggestions and ego crushing comments are welcome. ;) The one thing I know about it already, though, is…
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Participants: GregS, indiedog, madelf, greedo1379, jdagna, Shreyas Sampat, greyorm, tldenmark, Jack Aidley, timfire, matthijs, Cemendur.

11/15/2004 smokewolf: Comments please
Here is the most recent cover design for The Swing. What do ya think? http://www.93gamesstudio.com/images/cover3_preview.jpg Also here are several past models... http://www.93gamesstudio.com/images/cover1_preview.jpg http://www.93gamesstudio.com/images/cover2_preview.jpg (one I am currently using)
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Participants: smokewolf, timfire, GregS, Bob Goat, abzu, Jasper, indiedog, Walt Freitag.

11/12/2004 clehrich: Intellectual Property -- Technical Adobe Question
Hi, I'm trying to add a Creative Commons distribution license to my PDF game, in Adobe Acrobat 5, and the instructions on the Creative Commons website do not match the…
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Participants: clehrich, Bob Goat.

11/12/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Dungeons/Dummies] System as promo?
[url=http://www.indie-rpgs.com/viewtopic.php?t=13352][Dungeons/Dummies] Draft 3 - The Assembled![/url] I was doing some planning for the upcoming cons when I started thinking about how I might promote my Dungeons/Dummies game. At the rate…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, LordSmerf, Ron Edwards.

11/12/2004 Jonathan Walton: Idea: Free to Non-Roleplayers
So I'm in the middle of writing this extremely long article on the origins and development of wuxia for my in-the-works progressive roleplaying journal, Push. And I was thinking, "How…
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Participants: Jonathan Walton, Jack Aidley, Matt Snyder, timfire, ethan_greer, jdagna.

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12/3/2004 J B Bell: The Shadow of Yesterday's Open Source Publishing Adventure
Heya, Clint, You mentioned on these boards that TSOY was something of an adventure in using 100% open source tools. I haven't been able to search up much more about…
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Participants: J B Bell, Clinton R. Nixon, Dev, Tav_Behemoth.

12/4/2004 jknevitt: Indie Publishing! Aieee!
Let's assume for the time being I've got an indie system (like everyone else here) that's in the alpha stage that I want to publish (like everyone else here). So,…
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Participants: jknevitt, Trevis Martin, timfire.

12/8/2004 gobi: Meatbot Massacre and the Ransom Model
This doesn't pertain to RPGs specifically, but it's still a gaming-related online publication with an experimental distribution model, so I figured I'd give everyone a head's up on it. (And…
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Participants: gobi, Jasper, inky, Vaxalon, ethan_greer, Tav_Behemoth, GregStolze, Valamir, Malak, Mike Holmes, Nathan, Noon, GaryTP, contracycle.

12/8/2004 Christopher Kubasik: PDF Games? Aren't those like that Internet-thingee?
Hi. Over in the Actual Play review of GenCon SoCal, there are reports (still!) of piss fights over what constitutes a "real" company vs. a "vanity" set up. If you…
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Participants: Christopher Kubasik, ethan_greer, TonyLB, Matt Wilson, jdagna, Tav_Behemoth, clehrich, Clinton R. Nixon, daMoose_Neo, Bankuei.

12/9/2004 Tav_Behemoth: WotC Market Research: Four Million D&D Players in 2004
I thought this post by Charles Ryan, the brand manager of D&D at Wizards of the Coast, might be of interest to folks here: specifically the estimate that the number…
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Participants: Tav_Behemoth, abzu, jdagna, Vaxalon, Jack Aidley, rpghost, GaryTP, daMoose_Neo, tymotzues.

12/9/2004 Clinton R. Nixon: The world (of rights) is a complicated place
I had a long talk with a new friend tonight, and the topic of independent games and rights came up. This may sound strange coming from a Forge admin, but…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, abzu, Bob Goat, madelf, Tav_Behemoth, jdagna, Ben Lehman, Blankshield, greedo1379, clehrich, Eero Tuovinen, GaryTP, GB Steve, greyorm, daMoose_Neo.

12/10/2004 jknevitt: The "Ransom" Model of Distribution
Greg Stolze talks about his new distribution model here. I personally love the idea. If I felt I could muster up enough support for Tribe, Pyongyang or RUN, I'd give…
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Participants: jknevitt, Nathan P..

12/11/2004 jc_madden: Publishing questions
If anyone here has self published or gone through publishing houses or POD websites like RPG I'd like some imput on your from your experience. For me it's not "about…
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Participants: jc_madden, MisterPoppet, Jasper, smokewolf, Troy_Costisick, Grand_Commander13, jerry, kushinagi, timfire, Polaris.

12/12/2004 tldenmark: Opinions on Lulu vs. CafePress?
I've used cafe press quite a bit for making my convention books. Particularly for small b&w art books to sell at cons. I've also recently used it for the new…
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Participants: tldenmark, Eero Tuovinen, Marco, Bardsandsages.

12/13/2004 Doehring: lulu
I would check lulu.com they seem to be the cheapest I have seen and there was a post here on the forge but it was difficult to realise what it…
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Participants: Doehring, daMoose_Neo, Ron Edwards.

12/13/2004 daMoose_Neo: [Final Twilight]Grand Experiment- PDF CG
Hmmkay, discussion in Theroy over CCGs and RPGs sparked a old idea in me brain and I dug out the notes and samples from it. After some more work aligning…
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Participants: daMoose_Neo, LordSmerf, Andrew Morris, greyorm, twiztidsoul0512.

12/13/2004 Doehring: Role Playing
Personally I play D&D and when I agree it is not the best system the world itself has more resources than any other out there. The game is a giant…
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Participants: Doehring, Ron Edwards, daMoose_Neo.

12/13/2004 Doehring: Post it
If your hate mail is not to graphic post it it would be intresting to see what that person said and how they supported there idea.
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Participants: Doehring, Ron Edwards.

12/13/2004 Doehring: Middle Class?
Well I have never seen any results my self however I would have to say from the term middle-class in sociology most who play RPG's are not. An average of…
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Participants: Doehring, Tav_Behemoth, Ron Edwards.

12/13/2004 TonyLB: [Capes] Cover for critique
Finally finished the draft cover for Capes (barring a few little additions and modifications I know still need to be done in the title-bar). And I am now absolutely too…
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Participants: TonyLB, Sydney Freedberg, Tobias, timfire, GaryTP, Andrew Morris, John Harper, jdagna, Shreyas Sampat, Jack Aidley.

12/13/2004 Doehring: main stream
If you look there have been a few main stream books that have published in smaller formates than 8.5 by 11. Those books from my knolege include a form a…
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Participants: Doehring, Ron Edwards.

12/13/2004 Doehring: Adds
Yes design does matter as well as profeshionalism. If you cover lookes like a cartoon you will appeal to that type of audience. Even the adults that usually like anime…
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Participants: Doehring, Clinton R. Nixon, GaryTP, Ron Edwards.

12/13/2004 Doehring: Patent
I was woundering if anyone else has knoledge in this but I herd that it is possible to patent ideas enfact I do believe the system for the CCG Magic…
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Participants: Doehring, Angaros, GaryTP, jdagna, caio_maximino, daMoose_Neo, madelf, Ron Edwards.

12/14/2004 Vaxalon: What do you think, scam?
I got this email tonight: Seasons Greetings Noble Adventurer! I was exploring cyberspace and came across your ad at one website for gamers. (That is where I got your…
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Participants: Vaxalon, TonyLB, jc_madden, MisterPoppet, smokewolf, twiztidsoul0512.

12/14/2004 Simon W: Dreamscape Cover Art
Andrew (Navaro) has now finished the cool cover art for Dreamscape - (originally a 24-Hour rpg entry). here Simon W http://www.geocities.com/dogs_life2003/
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Participants: Simon W, matthijs, Andrew Navaro, Bob Goat, TonyLB, ejh.

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